The KNOWLES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	27,380	1174	0.01	102
United States (1880 census)	6,617	916	0.013	132
Change since 1880	+20763	-258	-0.003	-30
Other Countries
Australia	2,427	665	0.015	148
United Kingdom	18,193	304	0.04	396

Top States for KNOWLES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	3,485	529	0.022	218
California	2,084	1569	0.006	62
Texas	1,826	1353	0.009	88
Georgia	1,607	659	0.020	196
New York	1,100	1639	0.006	58
Top States for KNOWLES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	687	314	0.054	539
New Hampshire	349	508	0.028	282
Alabama	997	743	0.022	224
Florida	3,485	529	0.022	218
Georgia	1,607	659	0.020	196

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called KNOWLES live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KNOWLES represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KNOWLES in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KNOWLES by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KNOWLES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KNOWLES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the KNOWLES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of KNOWLES in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	490	1.79
Mixed Race	408	1.49
Native American/Alaskan	126	0.46
Asian/Pacific	118	0.43
White (Caucasian)	22,903	83.65
Black/African American	3,335	12.18

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the KNOWLES surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to KNOWLES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KNOWLES.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.